Category: 2. Middle East

British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan on Saturday led the crowd in chants of “Free Palestine” and “Death to IDF” during their Glastonbury Festival performance, prompting British police to review comments made on stage by both Bob Vylan and Irish hip hop group Kneecap, Anadolu reports.

Kneecap, also performing at the festival, expressed pro-Palestine messages. Rapper Liam O’Hanna, a member of the group, sent greetings from the stage to “Palestine Action,” a…

Iran cast serious doubts on Sunday that a US-sponsored ceasefire with Israel will hold, saying it is fully ready to respond to any new attacks, Anadolu reports.

“Since we are completely doubtful about the enemy honoring its commitments, including the ceasefire, we are prepared to give it a tough response in case of recurrence of an act of aggression,” Iran’s Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi said during a phone call with Saudi Defense Minister…

The Israeli army said Sunday that it seized several individuals during raids in southern Syria and took them inside Israel for interrogation, Anadolu reports.

A military statement said that forces of the army’s 210th Division conducted several raids in southern Syria over the last week against what it called “weapons warehouses.”

The army said several people were held and brought into Israeli for “detailed questioning.”

Although the new Syrian…

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes and gunfire killed 23 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on Sunday, including at least three children.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that his services “transported 23 martyrs, including several children and women” killed in various locations around the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military told AFP it was not able to comment on the reported incidents but said it was fighting “to dismantle Hamas military capabilities”…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s recent war with Iran had created “opportunities” for freeing hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza, where witnesses and rescuers reported more than 30 people killed Sunday.

His comments lifted hope for a new ceasefire in the devastating conflict in the Palestinian territory, after US President Donald Trump said he hoped a truce could be sealed within days.

Israel is bombarding Gaza in a bid to destroy the militant group Hamas…

Members of Israel’s Knesset (parliament) have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using the ongoing Gaza war to secure an end to his corruption trial, Anadolu reports.

“(Netanyahu) is conditioning the future of Israel and our children on his trial,” Knesset member for the Democrats Party, Naama Lazimi, said in statements cited by The Times of Israel news outlet on Sunday.

She said that the Israeli premier showed that he is unfit for the office by…

Turkiye and Syria have signed a new memorandum of understanding on international road transport, paving the way for the resumption of direct land transportation between the two countries, the Turkish transport and infrastructure minister said Saturday, Anadolu reports.

Speaking to Anadolu during the Global Transport Connectivity Forum in Istanbul, Abdulkadir Uraloglu said the agreement revives the 2004 International Road Transport Agreement between the two…

An Israeli court on Sunday postponed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a delay, as US President Donald Trump called for the case to be thrown out.

“Following the explanations given… we partially accept the request and cancel at this stage Mr Netanyahu’s hearings scheduled” for this week, the Jerusalem district court said in its ruling, published online by Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Netanyahu’s lawyers had asked the court to excuse him from…

Secretary-General Naim Qassem said Saturday that Hezbollah would not lay down its arms while Israel continued attacking southern Lebanon, Anadolu reports.

According to a report by the Lebanese News Agency NNA, Qassem said a ceasefire with Israel would impose responsibilities on the state, but Hezbollah was prepared in the face of Israel’s continued attacks.

“Who in their right mind would give up their power? We will not give up our power while Israel…